Margot's Blog

01 February 2016

Calm before the sediment storm

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Last month I had been summoned to Edinburgh to do some sampling before the entire BGS (or rather, only that part of it which is located in ...
31 January 2016

Guy Fawkes' night

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Guy Fawkes was a Yorkie. And in York, one does not celebrate the execution of a local! At least, that's what I read in "the Histor...
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30 January 2016

Exploring new ground again

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If you're a mine explorer, you tend to pay extra attention to holes in the topography. We sometimes do trips to scout out holes that som...
28 January 2016

Another Welsh book

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The new Pontio building is proud of its Welsh roots. They make quite a fuss of their row names in the cinemas and theater; they go A B C CH ...
27 January 2016

Calm Thursday

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This Thursday's mine was nice and small. We got out fairly early after having seem pretty much all of it! But it was one of the lesser v...
26 January 2016

Unexpected Burns night

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Jaco and Marjan invited me to go for dinner with them. That already sounded good before they told me it would be a Scottish night out! Bagpi...
24 January 2016

Into the snow

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The previous weekend I had only admired the snow from a distance . But it was still there, and the message had come home I probably only hav...
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This blog started as a tool to keep my Dutch friends informed on my whereabouts when I moved abroad. It quickly also became an external memory for my own use. It largely failed as a stage for discussions on whatever is worth discussing. And it has become a way of sharing my scientific knowledge with a lay audience. And who knows, it could become even more! And whatever it is you are looking for among all this: welcome.
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